154 CONTACxIOUS DISEASES. 



the hands of a Mr. Coulson,' who sold 106 of them to go 

 to Derby or Leeds. A Mr. Hickman took 40 to sell at Man- 

 chester. 



"The cargo arrived on the 29th of May, and the first 146 

 animals were disposed of on the 30th. The remaining 175 came 

 to London, and they were sold on the Thursday following, 

 ' after they had arrived in London on the Monday night.' The 

 cattle for London were placed in Mr. Honck's lairs in York 

 Eoad, adjoining the Cattle Market. They were then sold for 

 slaughtering, with the exception of 20, which Mr. Baker sent on 

 the following day to Gosport. The 155 animals were disposed 

 of entirely to metropolitan butchers. The sheep were sold at 

 Hull for killing purposes. The steamer 'Tonning' was disin- 

 fected by the free use of chloride of lime, and after certain 

 repairs were done to her engine, she started for Tonning. In a 

 leading article in the Times, published on the 15th August, it is 

 said that as far back as the 12th June animals affected with tlie 

 steppe murrain were seen in the Metropolitan Market. As 

 these were not the Eussian cattle, they must have been animals 

 which caught the disease in or near the market at the beginning 

 of June. On the 19th of June, Mr. Carvell of Lambeth Walk 

 purchased two cows, and one of these on the 24th showed signs 

 of sickness." — (Gamgee on the Cattle Plague.) 



In the end of July the disease appeared in Aberdeenshire. It 

 was brought there by four calves wdiich were sent by train to 

 Huntly from the south. 



By the beginning of November the plague had been con- 

 veyed over the length and breadth of the land, embracing 

 thirty counties in England, seventeen in Scotland, and one in 

 Wales. 



The following summary for the week ending December 30th 

 will sbow how it had spread by the end of the year : — 



Total number of farms, sheds, or other places in which the 

 disease had appeared : — England, 7,443 ; Scotland, 2,065; Wales, 

 245.— Total, 9,753. 



Total number of cattle on farms, in sheds, or other places 

 where the disease had been officially reported to exist : — England, 

 110,647; Scotland, 44,527 ; Wales, 4,536.— Total, 159,710. 



Number of animals slaughtered healthy: — England, 10,636; 

 Scotland, 6,578; Wales, 152.— Total, 17,366. 



